Anti-gay rights ref. signature check: 50k more needed

Sponsors of the effort to repeal the “everything but marriage” same-sex domestic partnership law need another 50,000 signatures to check out to make it onto the November ballot.

“As of the Wednesday evening report, Elections Division crews have now checked 79,195 names submitted by the sponsors,” said secretary of state spokesman David Ammons.
“The error rate rose again in the latest count, to 11.67 percent cumulatively. If they’re to qualify for the ballot, backers need to keep their error rate under 12.4 percent by the time all 137,689 of their signatures are checked. The bottom line, so far, is that 69,949 signatures have been accepted. It takes 120,577 valid Washington signatures to place a referendum on the ballot.”